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Chris Melvin earned his associate's degree from the Community College of the Air Force before separating from active service. He later joined the Army National Guard mostly to continue his education. "It was my military education benefit that drew me ...
WBOY-TV
Starting this fall, veterans will be able to qualify for the "Yellow Ribbon Program" in four graduate schools: Nursing, public health, engineering, and the college of arts and sciences.
EMPLOYMENT
OSU Seeks Applicants for Veterans Entrepreneurship Program
The Edmond Sun
Oklahoma State University is now accepting applications for its annual program helping disabled veterans launch and grow their own businesses…
Mansfield News Journal
Fewer than 9000 spots remain open in a government program that pays for unemployed veterans to get retraining in high- demand jobs, according to the U.S. Department ofVeterans Affairs. Part of the federal VOW to Hire Heroes Act passed last year, the ...
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Although not a veteran, Rep. Marlin Stutzman hosted a field hearing of the House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity regarding veteran employmentissues on Oct. 19 in Ft. Wayne. Just 0.5 percent of the American population has served ...
COMMUNITIES IN ACTION
Greenwich Post
Mr. Bruce described two problems that veterans like himself face in finding employment. The first is finding the right tools for the search. He remembered sending his résumé through various online databases and receiving more spam than job offers.
Las Vegas Sun
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman speaks at the grand opening of Veteran's Village, a 125-unit converted motel for housing homeless veterans on Las Vegas Blvd. south of Charleston Blvd. Several organizations that provide services for veterans are also ...
Newnan Times-Herald
The Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity is focusing the inaugural efforts of its new HANDS-UP program on the veteran community. HANDS-UP is an acronym for Housing And Neighborhood Development Strategies. The program – which launches this ...
If you are interested in events for wounded warriors or their families at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) at Bethesda, please see the link for the Warrior Care homepage at: http://www.wrnmmc.capmed.mil/WarriorCare/SitePages/WarriorCare.aspx.
Randall E. "Smitty" Smith, Lt Col, USAF
Deputy Director, Warrior & Family Support
Office of the Chairman
OLYMPIA, Wash. undefined Gov. Chris Gregoire has named Brig. Gen. Bret D. Daugherty as adjutant general of the state of Washington. [ Read More ]
It Only Gets Harder: If Congress doesn't go along with the Air Force's proposed force structure changes in Fiscal 2013, it needs to pony up the money to pay for the larger force, said Secretary Michael Donley on July 25. Speaking at a Capitol Hill event sponsored by AFA, the National Defense Industrial Association, and Reserve Officers Association, Donley said the force structure reductions put forth are necessary to meet the funding levels established by the 2011 Budget Control Act. That law specifies graduated spending levels a decade into the future, far longer than any plan Donley said he's encountered during his lifetime of public service. "It only gets harder from here," said Donley, urging Congress not to "double down" by passing the buck to Fiscal 2014. That, he said, would only increase the amount of constituent pain inflicted later. "I think [lawmakers have] heard that message and . . . it's understood," he told the Daily Report after his address. Donley said the service's Fiscal 2013 budget proposal is "extremely complex." He asked Congress not to tinker with it too much lest the Air Force's carefully "balanced" cuts fall disproportionately on needed capabilities. (See also SASC Wants Commission to Study Air Force Makeup.)
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Pain Metrics: Air Force Secretary Michael Donley offered some numbers on July 25 to gauge the pain of implementing sequestration on the Air Force's budget in January, should Congress fail to steer away from that fiscal cliff. Operations and maintenance accounts would lose $6 billion; "procurement would come down $4.5 billion;" and research, development, test, and evaluation activities would have to make due with $3.4 billion less, said Donley during a Capitol Hill address sponsored by AFA, the National Defense Industrial Association, and Reserve Officers Association. Those numbers assume that there is an exemption to the sequestration for personnel, he said. Sequestration would do "significant damage" to the military, and if it takes hold with a personnel exemption, that damage would grow from a baseline 10 percent to 13 percent, he said. "All our programs would have to be reduced, restructured, or terminated," he said. Donley believes that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has finally succeeded in getting Congress to "understand the effects" of sequestration.
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(Yahoo.com) The Pentagon is still grappling with how to write the rules of cyberwarfare, such as when and how to fire back against a computer-based attack, senior military leaders told Congress Wednesday.
(Yahoo.com) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he "sure as hell" hopes that automatic, across-the-board cuts in military spending don't happen.
(Washington Post) Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki acknowledged Wednesday that they have been frustrated by departmental bureaucracy in their attempts to streamline military health care for severely wounded service members.
(Yahoo.com) Senate Republicans warning of the devastating impact from looming defense cuts will hit four presidential battleground states next week, ratcheting up the political pressure on President Barack Obama even though Congress endorsed the reductions.
(Jerusalem Post) Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Wednesday the same day Iran announced it had added 1,000 more centrifuges that dealing with a nuclear-armed Iran would be much more deadly and costly than confronting Tehran before it goes nuclear.
(Washington Times) Our political leaders face a big moment. Dangerous cuts to our defense budget are slated to take effect on Jan. 3, 2013. If Congress and the president do nothing, this budget time bomb will detonate, creating severe, long-term problems for national security.
(Washington Post) It is time for Washington to emphasize what the United States can do, rather than what it can't, in Syria. U.S. policy is caught between two imperatives: President Bashar al-Assad must go, and the killing must stop. But while Assad's government will probably fall, it is also a near-certainty that the killing will continue - with the United States and its allies trying to limit the collateral damage. The Obama administration should try to prevent the humanitarian crisis from spreading to other countries, even as it helps plan the reconstruction of Syria.
(Washington Post) Fresh alarms are being sounded about the dangers of cyberattack, and they are serious enough to give pause. Evidence suggests an unprecedented wave of cyber-espionage, and theft is underway. A cyber-arms race is gathering steam. Unfortunately, the policy response is lagging.
(ArmyTimes.com) The nations social workers soon will be able to access courses or earn professional credentials to counsel troops, their families and veterans under a White House-led initiative to improve mental health services for the military and veteran communities.
(New York Times) During the final weeks of his life, Pvt. Danny Chen, the Chinese-American soldier from Lower Manhattan who killed himself last year while on duty in Afghanistan, was withdrawn and shy, struggling to find his place on a small military outpost in a violent region of the country, several of his fellow soldiers said Wednesday.
(DefenseNews.com) The Air Forces 30,000-pound behemoth bunker buster is ready to be used if needed, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said Wednesday.
Lackland Sex Scandal To Be Subject Of Briefing
(San Antonio Express-News) Air Force Secretary Michael Donley will brief House lawmakers on the Armed Services Committee in a closed-door session next week on a sex scandal at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, officials said Wednesday.
(Boston Globe) Senator Scott Brown, a member of the Army National Guard, will forgo a typical two-week block of summer training this year and instead serve the days individually next month at the Pentagon, a change that should prevent a long absence from the campaign trail while he seeks reelection.
(Bloomberg.com) The U.S. military is experiencing a suicide epidemic, with as many as 206 service members having taken their own lives this year, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told lawmakers today.
(Miami Herald) Layers of bureaucracy have bogged down efforts by the federal government to help troops transition to civilian life, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and
(Yahoo.com) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says a new Pentagon website will list the names of those Americans who have earned the Medal of Honor since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
(Wall Street Journal) Syria's government sent significant reinforcements toward its most-populous city on Wednesday in an effort to dislodge rebels battling government troops there, activists said, in what some observers said could shape up to be a pivotal battle in the 18-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
(Washington Post) Lawmakers who oversee the nation's spy agencies moved this week to curb leaks of classified information by approving legislation that would further restrict intelligence officials' ability to talk to news organizations or work for them after leaving their government jobs.
Congress Questions Extra DoD Health Care Funds
(Army Times Prime (armytimes.com/prime)) House lawmakers want to know why the Defense Department has a $708 million surplus in health funds when the Pentagon consistently has argued it needs to raise beneficiary costs to sustain health care benefits for troops and retirees.
(Bloomberg.com) The U.S. Navy is underestimating the cost of its proposed 30-year shipbuilding program by 19 percent, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said in a report.
(DefenseNews.com) Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., who chairs the Senate Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee, said she was briefed on the bombs new estimate July 23.
(USA Today) The surge of U.S. Marines and other forces in southwestern Afghanistan has broken the Taliban's grip on a former stronghold, allowing coalition forces to begin turning over security to Afghans, commanders said.
(Yonhap News Agency) Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter met Thursday and discussed the bilateral alliance and policy cooperation and coordination on North Korea, ministry officials said.
(Yahoo.com) The top U.S. commander in the Asia-Pacific region said Wednesday hes seeing positive signs as he tries to develop relations between the U.S. and Chinese militaries.
(Kyodo News) Japan and the United States on Thursday agreed to work to ensure the safe operation of the U.S. Osprey military aircraft to be deployed at a base in Okinawa later this year.
(New York Times) An Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be forcibly shaved if he does not remove his beard himself, a judge said Wednesday. The psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan, appeared in court on Wednesday wearing a beard in violation of Army rules. Major Hasan said it is an expression of his Muslim faith. The judge, Col. Gregory Gross, held him in contempt of court for keeping the beard and fined him $1,000.
Angeles Times) The militant organization that was once the scourge of the U.S. military campaign in Iraq and probably is responsible for more than 100 deaths in the country over the last few days has set its sights on launching attacks in the United States, intelligence officials said.
(Yahoo.com) The Pentagon said Wednesday it planned to sell 60 Patriot missiles to Kuwait in a deal worth an estimated $4.2 billion, as the emirate tries to bolster its defenses against the threat from Iran.
(USA Today) The co-owner of the Pentagon's top propaganda contractor in Afghanistan continues to receive payments from the company despite the Army's effort to exclude him from receiving government contracts.
(China Daily) To escalate tension with China over Diaoyu Islands, Japan has chosen to play the same game twice this month. According to the Japanese media, Japans Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said on Tuesday that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had confirmed that the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands fall within the scope of the US-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security.
(Boston Globe) If Iraq is a textbook example of everything that can go wrong with a military intervention, Libya is a model for what can go right.
(Wall Street Journal) You point out in your editorial "Obama's Syrian Education" (July 23) that, due to the protection afforded by Russia and China to the Assad regime, the United Nations Security Council has failed the people of Syria. That is a fact the U.S. has consistently condemned. However, the relationship between the Journal's other assertions and the facts end there.
Carter Describes Asia-Pacific Strategy in New Delhi
07/23/2012 09:45 AM CDT
Panetta: Program Will Help Transitioning Troops Get Jobs
07/24/2012 12:47 PM CDT
Panetta: Under Burgess, DIA Evolved Into Global Agency
07/24/2012 04:18 PM CDT
DOD to Improve Voluntary Education Safeguards
07/24/2012 06:47 PM CDT
New Website Honors Service Members' Valor
07/25/2012 10:42 AM CDT
Integrated Intelligence Framework Takes Shape
07/25/2012 11:17 AM CDT
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